Cloth-guide for looms



(No Model) 0. J. SULLIVAN.

CLOTH GUIDE FOR LOOMS.

No 313,633. Patented Mar. 10, 1885.

V INVENTOR 2 ATTORNEYS.

WITH States arrest Wri ten.

CORNELIUS J. SULLIVAN, OF FALL RIVER, MASSACHUSETTS.

CLOTH-GUIDE FOR LOOMS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 313,633, dated March10, 1885.

Application filed June 25, 1883.

To all whom ii may concern:

Be it known that I, CORNELIUS J. SULLI- VAN, of Fall River, Bristolcounty, Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement inCloth Guides for Looms, of which the following is a full, clear, andexact description.

Myimprovement consists of guides attached to the breast-beam of a loomand arranged in connection with a cloth-roller to guide the cloth ontothe cloth-roller, so as to roll straight and true thereon and preventthe shocks and jars of the loom from causing the cloth to run to one endof the roller, which frequently occurs to such extent that the selvageturns in between the side of the rollerstand and the end of thesand-roller, where it gets smeared with black oil from thejournal-bearing, and

i also gets out and torn and otherwise damaged,

all as hereinafter fully described.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ofthisspecification, in which similarletters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective-view of the clothroll end of a loom-frame,showing the application of my improved guides. Fig. 2 is a sectionalelevation of the loom-frame on the line 00 a", Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is aperspective view of an attaching plate or bracket which I use forconnecting my cloth guides to the breast-beam. I I

By the same bolts, a, that secure the templeplates 12 to the breast-beamc, I propose to se cure the angle plates or brackets d to the under sideof the breast-beam for the support of the cloth-guides e,which I proposeto employ for guiding the edges of the cloth directly and straightly onto the eloth-rollf, for preventing the cloth from running against theside frames, g, where it is often caused to run on one side (No modal)or the other by the shocks andjars of the loom, and sometimes get torn,and often smeared with oil from thejournals of the sandroll K, therebymaking imperfect rolls. The said guides consist of narrow plates ofmetahwhich are pivoted to said brackets at h, and have each a slot, 17,extending upward from the other end. through which the cloth-ro1lfextends, and along up which said roll rises as the cloth accumulates,the guides or gages being capable of shifting on the pivots h as thecloth-rollchanges its position by the winding of the cloth on it, andthus being always in theproper relations with the cloth for guiding iton the roll and protecting the edges from injury, as above stated. Thebrackets d have each a slot,j, for the bolts 0. to enable them to beshifted to suit the width of the cloth.

WVhile I prefer to utilize the same bolts a for connecting both thetemple-plates b and these brackets, because of the simplicity of thearrangement, I may of course employ separate bolts for them, if desired.

Having thus described my in vention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent 1. The combination of the guides 12, having slots ilorthe cloth-roll,with the cloth-roll, the brackets (l, to which the guidesare pivoted, and the breast-beam of a loom, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with the breast-beam 0 and the cloth-roll f, of thebrackets (1, adjustably attached to the breast-beam, and the guides e,pivoted to said brackets to shift with the cloth-roll, and having slotsembracing said cloth-roll, substantially as described.

CORNELIUS J. SULLIVAN.

YVitnesses:

WVILLIAM H. BROCKLEHURST, GEORGE H. LAW.

